San Francisco-based AI startup Emergent has raised $70 million in Series B funding to scale its team and strengthen its enterprise-focused AI platform.
A growing number of US AI startups raised over $100 million in 2025, highlighting sustained investor confidence despite market caution and tighter capital flows.
AI presentation startup Gamma has raised $68 million in Series B funding, pushing its valuation to $2.1 billion amid rising demand for AI-powered content tools.
Venture capital investors expect AI agents, selective IPOs and evolving funding models to shape technology markets and startup growth in 2026.
India’s startup funding reached around $11 billion in 2025 as investors prioritised sustainable growth, capital discipline and stronger fundamentals.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT 5.2 with improved reasoning, better instruction handling, longer context support and enhanced productivity features for professional and enterprise users.
Google launches Data Manager API to help marketers integrate AI with first-party data as AI-enabled brands report stronger revenue growth.
CoreOps AI secures 3.5 million dollars in Pre Series A funding to scale its enterprise AI modernisation and global expansion plans.
AI learning startup Yoodli raises 40 million dollars in Series B led by WestBridge Capital to expand its communication coaching platform.
Fractal Analytics secures SEBI approval to launch India’s first AI focused IPO, marking a milestone for the country’s enterprise AI and analytics sector.
AI-enabled martech tools are reshaping India’s marketing workflow, boosting speed, personalisation and automation across creative, media and operations.
Pibit AI secures 7 million dollars to scale its AI platform Cure, aiming to modernize underwriting and strengthen risk decisions for global insurers.
Google has launched an open-source MCP server for Ads API integration, offering developers improved access and LLM-based interaction with advertising data.
Perplexity AI acquires Sequoia-backed Visual Electric team to strengthen its AI agents push, adding design expertise to expand beyond search into creative and visual intelligence.
Agora partners with OpenAI to integrate Realtime API, enabling multimodal AI agents that deliver seamless real-time voice, video, and text interactions for enterprises.
AI logistics startup Augment, founded by Deliverr’s co-founder, secures $85M Series A to expand globally and transform supply chain management with AI-driven solutions.
Boundless Ventures launches ₹200 crore fund to back Indian AI startups, focusing on early-stage innovation, sustainable scaling, and global growth potential.
GraasAI raises $9M to expand its AI Agent Foundry in India, aiming to revolutionise e-commerce automation with end-to-end operational AI agents.
Terafac raises ₹6.5 Cr in pre-seed funding led by Inuka Capital to revolutionize Indian factory automation with AI and robotics solutions.
Legal AI startup Harvey hits $100M in annual recurring revenue and $5B valuation in just three years, with over 500 global enterprise clients.
Perplexity AI under fire for allegedly bypassing anti-scraping protocols; Cloudflare likens behavior to cyberattacks.
Positron AI raises $51.6M in Series A funding to scale energy-efficient AI inference hardware, backed by Intel Capital, Celesta, and M12.
Julius, an AI-powered data analyst platform, raises $10 million in seed funding to scale its analytics engine for business users. It simplifies data workflows and democratize insights.
Linkrunner raises INR 5 crore in pre-seed funding from Titan Capital to build India’s first AI-driven app attribution and analytics platform.
Indian IT firms shift focus to AI integration over invention, boosting enterprise solutions and workforce upskilling.
Meta hires OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to lead its push into AI reasoning, advancing its ambitions in general intelligence and cognitive AI innovation.
Pangram, an AI-text detection startup by ex-Tesla and Google engineers, secures $4M to expand its platform. Backed by ScOp and others, it aims to tackle generative AI challenges globally.
Nvidia is backing top AI startups like Runway, Hugging Face, and Perplexity to build a future-ready ecosystem beyond GPUs. Here’s what it means for Martech.
Deepgram launches Voice Agent API, a real-time, low-latency API solution aimed at powering scalable, enterprise-ready conversational AI applications.
X updates its terms to block use of tweets and API content for AI model training, marking a strategic move in the evolving data governance landscape.
